The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, September 10, 1900, Page 5, Image 5

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IT WAS TEXAS’ WORST STORM. (Continued from First Page) WIP J out by tb a*orm. The crow of ■ w orK train brought thin Information. vvh* the train left the bodle* of (oat had been recovered amt the ~erch for eahera wo* proceeding }l< iripatcod. acroaa tho country from Hrouxehtre, ** alao (really damaged. but far a* Known no llvaa wore loot KoMna Paaa baa not born beard from to day The laat newa anas received from there yeoteedoy morning and at that time ,1* water was surrounding the old town ( i the put and the wind waa rising and <tie wave* coming high. From the new tuern. which la eome dlatanc back, the ate.r had reached the depot and waa running through the eireata. The people were leaving for the high country known ii the back rtdgc and it to believed that all reaped. Two bodies have bean brought in from S -t'rooke on Galveston bay and seven teen perron* nrj missing there. Devfrnrtlon at Itowaloa. Three perron* were drowned at Morgan's Point and others are missing. With tha ex option of tboae of Mrs. Nicholson and Mr*. Jane Wcodlock. the bodies of the it'.id have not yet been Ident tiled. In Houston one person was killed—Hen ry Black, a hackdrlver. The property dam ire la great, a conservative estimate plac ing M at Hit), ooo. The Merchants' and punters' oil mill was wrecked, entailing * loss of *40.000. Tha Dickson Car Wheel Works suffered lo tha eitert of lIC.OW. Tn* hlg Masonic Temple, which la the of the Grand Lodge of the state, was partly wrecked. Neatly every church in the city was damaged. The First Bap tist. Southern MeChodtat and Trinity M-thodlat. the latter a negro church, will have to be rebuilt before they can be used stain. Many houses were unroofed. The residence portion of tha town presents a dl.apllald appearance, but the demage In title para of the city has not been so rrset as tn some others. The streets are ilmost impassable because of the litter of (hide trees, fences, telephone wires and poles. Much damage was done to window glass and furniture. Many narrow escapes ar recorded. Another train has left here tor Galves ton making the third to-day. The two pr- edlng ones have not been beard from s* all wires are prostrated. MiSV TOWNS DESTROYED. trrrrn Pfri Are Kiowa to Hm Rrrn Klllnl at Atvtn. Houston, Tf., 8* pi I.— Meager report! r arriving here from the country be tveen Houston end Oalveston, alone the line of the Santa F* Railroad. The tornado war the moat destructive a the history of the Mate. The town of Alvin I* reported to be prac tically demolished. Hitchcock has suffer ed severely from the storm, while the lit tle town of Alta Lome la reported without i house standing The lown of Pearl has lost ore-half of Its buildings. U B. Carlton, president of the Business League of Alvin, and a prominent mer chant there, reports that not a building Is left standing In the town, either residence or business. Stocks of goods and bouse hi mat tire ore ruined and crops are a total loss. Alvin la a town of shout 1.300 Inhabit ants Seven persons were killed In and near the loom. They are: Mrs. Fralher, killed In Santa Fe Rail road wreck; J. M. Johnson; Mrs. J. if. Johnson; sister of Mrs. Johnson, name not known; 8. O. Lewis; John Qiaspy; a boy named Richardson. The Santa Fe train, which left hare at 7:i5 Saturday night, was wrecked at a point shout two miles north of Alvin. Mrs Prather of Rosenberg. Tea., wos killed and several were Injured. The train was running slowly when it encountered the heavy storm. It la reported that the train was Uterally lifted from the track. Mrs Prather was thrown across the car and half way through a window. When the car was reached U was found that her head had been under water and she was drowned. Among the Injured are A. J. Coodtt of Houston, R. C. Henderson of Houston. Engineer Jack Martin, badly hurt about cheat and leg; Fireman Thomas Doyle. Conductor M H. Donnelly. Several other paxeengci a were slightly injured TUB WIRES ARK ALL DOWS. Horst Remove Come From Galveston to 9t. Loots. St. louts. Sept The olllre of the Western Union Telegraph Company In this city Is heoleged by thousands of en quirers as to the extent of the storm that cut off Galveston, Tex., from coramunl .etion with the rest of the world y ester day. Humors of the most dire nature come from thet part rjf Texas, some of them even Intimating that Galveston hss been entirely wrecked and that the bay Is eov ' r *d with the dead bodies of Us resl deata. Mothlng definite can be leeraod. how ever. as the Oolf city ts entirety Isolaled. r t even railroad train# bring able to teach it. All the telegraph art re* to Galveston " r * mine south of Houston and to accen tha serious condition of affart It la the cable lines between Galveston "te* Tampico and Coatsaeoatcoa. Mexi co. are severed, at host no communication ,v er them Is poasthls at the present time. The Western Union has a large number of telegraph operators and linemen walt in * Houston to go to Galveston, but I* I* Impoeettda to get them there. *l present a sorer* storm of wind and rain prevails around Dallas, but the wire* are slUl working to lhal point San An tonio Is being reached by El Faro, In the extreme southwestern portion of the state, a procedure made necessary by the prevailing storm which centers around Dallas. DEATH AND I>KM MI CTION Houston Tells tlarr*.nlag Tales of ftform Ntrlrkrn ftFrilni. Houston. Tex., Kept 9- A tram came In on the Columbia Tap Railroad this after noon and tu craw tell a story of death end desolation throughout the country through which they passed. Conductor Ferguson stales lhai houses, barns, crops and orchards have been de. strayed and great damage has been done, A. L. Kobe*, postal clerk, reported that at Oyster Creek the train crew and pas senger* heard cries coming out of a mates of debrta Several person# answered the cries and found a negro woman fattened under a roof They pulled her out and she Informed her rescuers that there were others under tho roof. A further search resulted In Ibe finding of nlho dead bodias, all colored perrons. When ibe train arrived at Angleion, all the churches, the jail and a number of houses had been blown down. Three fa talities are known lo have occurred si Anglcton. hut the train slopped there only a few minutes and the number killed or their names could not be learned. At Anglcton the conductor decided to return lo Houston so that the extent of the damage beyond Angleion Is not known On the return trip the crew saw Ihe debris of doxens of demolished houses. Ai Sandy Point several perrons were badly Injured, but no fatalities were re ported. At Areola a family named Wofford bad (altered In the upper story of their house. The upper portion of the house was blown away and Mr. WoCtord'a moth er was Instantly killed. Brookshire Was Wiped fiat. The hurricane was particularly severe at Brookshire, twenty-aeven miles west of Houston on tne Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad. Four dead bodies have been taken from the debrta of wrecked houars and It la belleved'thai others have been killed. It U reported that only four bouses are left standing In Brookahire. which had a population of *8 persons. The names of the dead at Brookshire can not be learned to-night. Many Killed at Alvla. Later reports received from Alvtn state that many perron* were killed there. Elev eu bodies have been recoverd. At Sea brook Mrs Jane Woodstock was killed by a falling house; Mrs. Nicholson and Louis Broquet were drowned. 8. K. Mcllhenny, wife and daughter, and Mrs. Leroy and two children are missing They are known to have been In their cottages, which were destroyed. The dead body of a sailor sat found under a cottage. At Braaorta six people were klleld by fulling houses or were drowned last night. Including Oeorge Duff, son of Hon. J. r. Duff Judge Duff was himself seriously In jured Reports state that only the Court .House and two other buildings are stand ing there A report from Chenango says that eight people were killed. Among the passengers who arrived here on a relief train from Oalveston ts Ben W. Dew. an attache of the Southern Pa clftc. Dew bad been at Virginia Point for several hours and said 'hat he saw from ICO fo 130 dead hodleo floating out of the boach at that place. Conductor Powers reported that twenty five corpses had been recovered by the life saving crew, many of them women; that tha crew had reported many dead bodies were floating and they were using every endeavor to get ihem all out of the water The water swept across the Isl and and It Is presumed that most of these were Oalveston people, though none of them have been Identified. Saw Hl* Sons Drown. One of the refugees who came In the relief train and who had a sad exoeri enea was 8 W. Clinton, nn engineer at tha fertiliser plant at the Galveston stock yards. Mr. Clinton's family con sisted of hls wife and six children. When his bous* was washed away he managed to get two of hts little boys safely u a raft and with Ihem drifted helplessly about. Hls raft collided with wreckage of every description and was split lr. two. and he was forced to witness the drown tng of hts sons, being unable to help them In any way. Mr. Cltnlon aays parts of the city were seething masses of water. Mr. Jennings, a Ski ter by trade, got to the mainland m shout the same manner as Clinton After losing hls wife he s*e out and by swimming and drifting around reached the mainland. William Smith, a boy about 1* years old, whose home St In Wool Texas, had a nar row escape Young Smith was bloom off the docks and cams aohore in the drift wood. Despite the tßfflculty he experi enced in keeping aflowt be held out to the end and reached the shore safe and bound A. England and hl wife of Texas City, who ware on th e relief Irwin, report that the whole of that lown Is blown sway and a number of lives were lost. There were six women known to Mr. England who were drowned and he Is satisfied that many others k>*t their Uvea. Ilsstas* In Interior Towns. At Walter, half the houses In the town were demolished. The South Texas Bap tist College la badly damaged and the school house Is a wreck. Not a house In the town ChappcH Htll escaped damage nnd many were demolish ed. Business house# also suffered and a line gin Is a complete wreck. At Penliam the Court House was nearly wrecked and the City HaH completely so. Every business house nnd residence suffer ed to a greater or lass extent. The Are apparatus Is under the ruins of Ihe CTty Hall and guard Is maintained for lire duty. At Ounloo. stores were unroofed and res idences destroyed. At Rock Island, the Baptist Church wos totally wrecked, nnd several residences unroofed. At Eagle Lake the damage amounts to pjd.ijgl to the rice and cotton crops nnd to re*W*nc#f. At Attalr. fruit trees were blown out of the ground and rice levelled. At Rosenberg. In addition to the dam age to the residences, the Opera Howe and the Baptist Chur.lt were wr-ehed. H*v*rs I persons wars Injured, Mrs. Coots, sn aged lady, fatally Three persons were killed In or near Ihere. namely. Rev. Mr Watson. Mrs. L. J. Cantrell and a man named Hyman. Many bouse* war* unroofed at Lcsieg THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1000. lon and their content* ruined by the rain, Forty-two dwelling seal business bouses were wrecked at WalHs, At Fulshier nfty houses were biown down One person was killed near the town by s felling houee. In Hardin county a large amount of timber war blown down and there was much damage to property at Village MUl* No damage Was done at Corpus Cbrtstl ot Hookpott on the lower roast. At Bohmond three negro* a were killed by the collapse of a church, and three others were killed near there. One also was killed at Booth. No names obtainable. COMMUNICATION (IT. Telegraph Mires Hewn Between Dellas and Uowtk Tessa. Dallas. Tea., kept . k p. ra -Telegraph ic commuid.-ation with south Terns* Is cot off shout 100 miles north of Houston. I'p to this hour it hs* been Impossible to obtain reliable news from Galveston as lo tbs extern of the hurricane |n that section. Rumors of dire disaster ore Hy ing thick and fast without being in any way authenticated. All that Is known ia that the disaster has occurred but Its ex tent Is not known. The last wire the Western Union had to Houston went down at 1 :S0 this morning. This wire was used oy the Associated Prase and was working so had at that hour that whatever informs' toe Houston had to Impart could not be made out. The stoim center is rapidly approaching northern Texas and its fury has destroy ed all telegraph tinea In Me pith, doing vast damage and killing people In scatter ed localities. The cyclone has demolished a part ot the towu of Smltbviile. on the Mteeourt Kansas and Texas KnHway. A number of Ivikui were reported killed. The rail road and telegraph companies have gang* end wrecking trains out attempting to work their way south, but the itercenese of the storm make* it Impossible for them to gain any headway, as (they have to seek shelter In onler to save their live*. The conditions at Galveston and Houston are undoubtedly grave. The four Immense bridges, from four to six miles each, in length, connecting Gal vceton with th* mainland are either wholly or partially destroyed. The storm at Temple was severe and fears are entertained lhal the city ia bad ly wrecked. The railroad officials say It 1* Impossible to move trains south of I'ourtney. Korthtiound trains from Hous tlon last night were from tlftesn to eigh teen hours late. A private message from San Antonio states that a serious disaster occurred at Corpus t'hrlarl. Rockport and other coast towns, the nature of which cannot be determined. A bulletin from Smlthvllle at noon states that the grain elevators and other large buildings at Galveston had been washed Into the bay. All Ihe railroads southward from Del ias at noon Issued a bulletin Instructing their agents to discontinue the sale of tickets or accepting freight for the south uotll further orders. AU the efforts to reach Sabine Paaa and Port Arthur have fatted. Without attempting to recite any of the vii/tou# disastrous rumors the conserva tive opinion la that ths situation at Gsd vrstan is extremely grave, with no possi ble hope of news from that arction for many hours to com*. WRECK! OF THAIS! REPORTED. Another Story of Horrible Devasta tion al Galveston. New Orleans, Sept. A apeclat from Houston, Tex., says: In the relief train which Conductor Pow ers brought In from Virginia Point to night was hls own son. who lay In the baggage coach a corpse Powers was In the employ of the G. H. and H. Com pany at Virginia Point, as baggage watchman and wss 26 years of ago. He had dintinguishad himself as a life saver at Texas City and had worked diligently on the work of rescuing people. inductor Powers reports that the two freight trains, one on Ihe I. A O. N., tbe other on Ihe M.. K * T. which left Houston si Saturday morning, ar rived at Virginia Point In safety, but could get no further than that point. In the elorra Saturday they wrer- both over turned and the cars were washed entirely off Ihe right-of-way, the crews es caped and they set about at once In the work of rescuing people who lived Ihere. Up lo this afternoon they had recovered twenty-live bodies, ten of whom were women, and ihe work wss still going on. Mr. A. O. Roeestng. a contractor who lives to the Brlmer addition, came In from Genoa, where he has been constructing a school building and reports that every building in Ihe town was blown .lown and made a total wrack, with but one or two possible exceptions He stated that tbe people Ihere are in destitute circumstances for ths most part and ore really In need of help from the people in Houston. Another story From Ualvealoa. Mr. Joyce, another refugee from Qal vearon makes the following statement: "The wind was blow.ng Saturday af ternoon and night al about 73 mlies an hour, blowing the wnter In Ihe Oulf. and completely covering tbe etty. The people of Galveston did not lliink It was much •t first and kept within their houses, con sequently when the wind began blowing as It did and the water dashed agatnat Ihe houses, completely demolishing them, many I via arete hot. I have no Idea bow many lives were lost, hut think there will be several thousand deaths reported, be sides many people we know nothing about. ••I was In the storm which struck Gal veston In 1*75. but that one, had ae II *•, was nothing In comparison with Satur day's. II will be hard lo tell bow much damage was done In the city, hut It will br something terrible. Tha Gulf and bay were full of wreckage of every deecr-p --• ion. and It seem* as If every trams bouse In the town mint have been Mown down and knocked to pieces. Judging from tbe amount Of driftwood that there la float Ing about lam going hack lo Oalveston as soon as I can find my sleser'e body and thet of tier children, and shall find Ihem If 1 have lo walk all over the Miami to do It. STORM STOPPED TH.AFFIC. hi son lining In Look After Opening I p the Santa Fe Road. Chicago. Sept. * —W. C. Nixon, general superintendent ef the Gulf. Colorado and , t* trim •) rim, Doe* your head ache ?Pain back of j your eyes ? Bad fame in your mouth ? J If* your liver! Aver’* Pill* are liver pills. They cure constipation, I headache, dyspepsia, and all liver complaint*. 2Sc. All drugging. | Wssl fMir mouitack* or lror-1* bsevuiuT*} buckinghJms dye (jute. '* •>' —wy • • ■•>_ <w „ | Santa Fe Railway, of which Galveston Is a terminal, who has been visiting In Chi cago. Ml to-night for Texas to asslat tn restoring traffic oa his road, rut short by the destructive storm which swept the Gulf city. Telegrams were received by Mr Nixon, before leaving for the South, saying that the last passenger train left Galveston Saturday morning on the Santa Fe Sys tran Slnoe then traffic had been mtlrsly stopped Mr Nixon was gristly worried that nothing had been heard from passenger train No 1, which was due tn Galveston on Saturday night at * o'clock. It wits last reported at n small station, forty miles north on the mainland, and up to late to-night nothing had been heard of It. Mr. Nison believes the train waa taught by th* hurricane and was wreck ed .Ither on the mainland near the Gulf or on the bridge. Assistant hupeitntervbnt W 11. Scott, located at Temple, aso Informed Mr Nixon that the storm * headed north, raging all the way to Alvin. 300 miles north of Galvea oil The huirlean* blew so violently that all the repair and rotter trains sent to Galveston by Mr Bcolt had to turn back and wait until Ihs fury of (he gal* had subsided. AT NADINE AND SABINE PAM. Graves! Fears Eatrrtalned fer the Safety of Residents. Beaumont. Tax., Hrpt .-Th* gravest foars gre entertained here for the safety of the res.dents of Sabine and Sabine Pas* Reports of th# storm's flercencs# at Sa bine have bran circulated about the cltv all day and definite new* Is scarce. At th* dlrpaicheps office of the Sabine and East Texas road. It 1* learned that the last dispatch from the operator at Babin# (th* new town), reporttd ol that rim* that the water w-as eurroundtng the depot and washing over the railroad track. He said people were leaving in crowds for the back ridge The wind's velocity wo* in creasing snd the water rising. Th* operator at Sabine Pass (th# old town) reported substantially as the other operator. He mN that th* track north ward had been washed away, that resi dents were leaving for the ridge In water waist deep and that the storm was grow ing (Greer. Since that sltne he has not been heard from. A passenger ttsln returned this after noon, having reached a point a quarter of n mil* from the old town, wrhere the track was washed away from there on The de pot agent a* Sabin* Pass waded snd swim out to the train but could give no derail* of Ibe damage. He had not left hi* office but he thought that no lives had been loot. From th# train people could be seen w tiling about In the water which seemed to be from two to four feet deep. This county's greatest damage will be to lb* lice crop. No report ran be obtained from the country, but several large plant ers In the city estimate that the standing rice will be a total la**. Some farmers have cut nearly the entire crop and thus saved H while others have just begun cut ting. Gf U.WH acres belonging to the Beaumont Irrigation ('omiatny there ha* been only a few acre* harvested and they estimate the whole crop a loss. This, how ever. ie not definite. Reports from along the (Tulf and Interior to Bolivar, received last night, are Jk trosalng. The dispatcher at Bolivar wired that the waves were running very high, ills office and the yard tracks of the Gull and Interstate Railway were coraptvtdy submerged and he waa expecting to be washed out to aea any moment. REPORT! OE LO!! OP LIFE. salilne Pace and Other Paints Prob ably Devastated. Dallas, Tex.. B*pt. A special to th* News from New Orleans says; A Tlmee-Democrat special from Port Eads, In South Pass, say* that tho storm waa most violent and (hat several Uvea were loet off Bout h west Poo*. Tho lug Monarch, lowing alx barges from flabln* Pose to Fernandina, broke her tiller Thursday, anchored Ihe barges and pro ceeded lo South Paa* for repairs. UhOi waa caugM.by the storm and when she went out to-day to 'ook for ibe barges no traco of them could be fouod or of the six keepers. The water was waist deep over the shores of South Puss and moat of the population took shelter In the IlgMhouse. A special from Beaumont. Tex., eayx: ] "Reports from Port Arthur gave that point ax safe. Nothing definite can be learned from Babins Pa ml "The loss of life and properly, however, la lbought to be frightful Telegraph and telephone rommunlcailon Is lost. "Patton, Koilovtr and Winnipeg, on Ihe Gulf and Interstate Railway, are reported as under water and people here are anx iously swatting n* ws from tbe storm swept district. ‘The heavy rain* struck this lown yes terday evening, and continued wltk ter rific force throughout the night and all of to-day. At daybreak this morning a negro we* found dead In the colie of *a electric light wire In tho business canter of the lown. A number of houses have been unroofed and moved from the foun dations. Tbe lo** oa building* and house hoM effaota Is known to be considerable, while lha lose on th* efferaon coxmiy .-top* It estimated al from to ISN - ot" DAMAGE AMR NEW ONLBAXfI. Hire Planter* on the Mlealsalppl Will Loer gian.nyxi. How Or leans, flap!. A-A Dip over the j arorm-afiiken section atone the Mississip pi river, starring some thirty mile* below the city, and raachlna to the Gulf, show* a damage of about one hundred thousand dollar* to the rice crop. Truck farms poultry, cattle and other damage will double th* amount The river rose six feet during the storm sud flooded (he aerlkm. The disabled steamer Otrri was towed into Pori Eads this evening, all well. FORT ARTlit N I Hint M ATF.It. A Dredge Root AVas AA reeked and Several l ive* Loot. Memphis, Sepi, —A specl*l to the Com mercial-Appeal from New Orleans say* A dispatch from HI Charier, La., statm lhal passenger* from Port Arthur. Tex,, report that town (our feat under water. One of the New York Dredgw Company's hoots waa wracked and several lives wore Inal. At Morgan City ronoldrrable damage wo* done to the rood and bridges by a boat being blown Into it. HOW GALVESTON IS SITUATED. t ondltlon of People May Me Horrible Heywad Deaertptlna. Indianapolis. Tnd . Bept —D. B Clark son of Galveston, whose family Is prob ably swipt away, wa an sni nw Inquirer at Associated Press headquarters lo ll* hi Hpraklug of the sunken city. Its location, population, business Interest#, and former do id* that have swept over the city, he said: “Galtrreton Is stluatrd on an Island ex tending east and west for twenty-seven mllea. and I* seven miles In Its greatest width north and south No rity could be In greater danger with such a horrible vlrliation aa has now come to Galveston In no part of th* city with It* (MOO popu lation, la It more than alx feet above the aea lavel. Th* flat condition not only point* to the drapersle situation of the people al ouch a time a* thle. but their danger may be considered when It ia known that exactly where the city is built ike island la only on* and a quar ter mile* wide. “On the bay or north aide of ih* city. Is the commercial section with wharves stretching along for nearly two miles, lined with eti. de and large storage house* Then, In ttrat portion of Galveston there are three elevators, one of I.RXMWn bushels capacity, one of 1.1N0.0U0 and th* third 750,- M The leland from Ih* north eld* I* eon nected with th* mainland by railroad bridges and lhe longest wagon bridge In the work], the latter nearly two mile* hi tangth. "In 1(73 th* entire east end of the city was swept away by Uie tidal wave that followed a terrific storm that swept the gulf coaot for three day*. Then th# east era land on which bunding* etood was lit erally torn away. The work of replacing It has since been going on. Fort Points, which guard* tb* entrance to the harbor has since been built end on It* parapets are mounted some of the heaviest roert defease ordnance. By the force ot the storm of 1*72 six entire blocks of Ui* city were swept away. Wealthy Resilience Serllna. •‘lt ts on the south side of ihe city, be ginning wllhm fifty yards of Ihe medium Oulf tide, that the wealthy realdenl por tion of the city is located and which wna the first part of Qalfsaton to be stricken by the full force of the recent storm and flood. All of the eastern end of tha oily must certainly be washed away, and In this quarter, between Broad and 1 at reel, some of (he handsomest end most expen rive residence eelabllshmenie are located. There was located Ihere on* home which alone coat the owner over ll.'O).*00 Most of the residences are of frame, but there ara many of stone and brick. In the ex treme eastern end of eho elly there are many of what we call 'raised cottages.' They are built on piling and stand from eight lo ten feet from the ground as a precaution against floods, It being poeel- Me for the water to sweep under them. "The only proteceion tbsi has ever been provided for the Gulf side of tbs city hss been two atone breakwaters, but many times with ordinary storms, coming In from the Gulf, the high tide water has been hurled over the low stone-walls right lo the very door* of Ihe residence* prom Virginia Point, six mllea from Galveston. In ordinary conditions of the atmosphere, the city can V* plainly seen. If II is true i hot Galveston cannot be now seen from the Point then fbe condition of the people In the city must be Indescribably horri bly." Galveston’s Gee at Wealth. Concerning the wealth of some of the principal business quarters of Oalveston. Mr. Clarkson said: "Many millions of dollars are Invested In the wholeaa.e end retail business of the city. On fltrand street alone Ihere are ten block* of bui-ineea rsiahllsnmenl* that represent an Invested capital of 11/7.. fiM.tMl. Market street l> the heavy retail street, and there In the heart of Ihe flood ed district, the 10.-see cannot bui reach way Into the millions The fact, as Indi cated by ihe dispatches that water Is standing six feet deep in Ihe Trcmoni Ho tel furnishes starlllng evidence lo me that Galveston has been Indeed dreadfully de vastated. , Tbs hotel la In lha center of ihe city. For two yearn Galveston did lha heaviest shipping business In notion and grain of any Southern city. When 1 was at home two shiploads of rattle wars leav. lug (he purl on an average every week." ItWKPT A LAMBIC AREA. Haoaen Slow* hewn In Many Places and Many Lives Lost. St.. Louis, Sept. A special to the Ro ruhitc frrgi Austin. Tex . says: Prom Red river on tbe south, and throughout the central part of the slate, Texas has besn storm-swept during the lasi thirty hours by a hurricane which lias laid waste property, caused loss of life and effettualiy blocked all telegraphic and telephonic * sen mun leaf lon soul# of here, while Ihe op*rotten of trains has been seriously handicapped. Tbe storm mad* rapid Inroads Into Ihe center of the slat*, stooping long enough at Houston to damage over half of the buildings of that city. Advancing Inland, the storm swept Into Homestead, fifty miles above Houston, thence to Chapo*ll Htll. UN miles farihsr than to Branham, thlity miles farther, wrecking all three NOTE— 3® prises of Greenbacks and Go.d will b paid for truthful letters re garding experience In coffee drinking flee statement in this pp*r Oct. A headed "More Boxes of Gold," If you miss Ihe paper writs to th* Peetum Cos., hi Bailie Creek. Mick. L) |2W | "*1 j |~l O MBMaetilgilflilli towns and terrorising tbs i* >pl< beyond expression The storm at those point* blew over quite a number of house* snd severs! pe isms were killed. Owing to the absence of lelsaraphh- common (cat km It M diffi cult tn get kiformaiton frees any of tbs point* n.imed. but II Is known that the loss ha* been great. The cyclonic winds were accompanied by a heavy rainfall, which served to add to rim horror ol midnight. Every effort to secure commutikwtlan with Galveston has been funk- a* all Ires are down south of bets. Telegraph and telephone companies have large forces of men out trying to rig up wires, but nothing has I wen heard from them up to to-night, and It Is not known what progress they have made In their work. From Houthweat Texas and points along the Gulf coast to the city of Gal veston thv reports continue alarming, and particularly those concerning Galveston and Rockport The number of persons summering at various points along I Its coast llelilna have not been heard from. Th* .rattan crop ha* been nearly ruined, as ihe storm swept the cotton bait of the state, and reports (ram ail available Sve tlans are to th* effect that the crop* have been swept as clean of Its fruit as though by the hand of mm, and will be almost a total lose M lltltlAEH NOHLK ASMOKE. hhe Seems to Have Brea Abandoned as There Are no sign# of Life. Sebastian, Fla . Sept •.—The three masted schooner May K. Nobis of Bath, is aground a quarter of a mile off shore, two mile* south of Hehastlan Hhe seems to be abandoned, as there la no appearance of life on board. Hit* will be boarded from sgiorc as soon a* the aea fall* suf ficiently for oafeiy. Steamer la IHetreee. New Orleans. Kept The Norwegian steamer Ulstetn. ('apt Aarovotd. arrived from Puerto t'ortea to-day alter a terri ble barite with wind and wave. The 11*- steln reports that the steamer Joseph CHeri. Jr . with her rudder poet gone, la anchored about forty miles south of Houthweat Paaa A towboat has been sent lo th# relief of th# disabled *tearner Fast Train Wrecked. Dallas, Tex. ep(. .-Tb# Missouri. Kansas and Tessa northbound flyer |a re ported wrecked neat Snyera. Th# wreck occurred al ItdO rht* morn ing. Oue passenger wa* Injured. .AHt'nnisHoi* op aix in df. ad. fame lata Frnmlaeace In fnaaretlon With Ft tart mages. I'arts, Hcpt. Moneignor Francois Xavier Goulbe-Houlard. Archbishop of Ala. ta dead. * The late Morwignor Gouthe-Hr>ul*rd ana born In Batnt Joan Ira Vetre. Hepi 1, 118 and ana prconlaed and consecrated In the summer of IMO as Archbishop of Ata. Hs came Into striking prominence In the autumn of Yl in conned ion with th# "af fair of the plhmmagee ' as th* rosult of violent demonsiration* • gainst French pilgrims of Rome, due. Ii was al leged. lo ihefr Imprudent beha vior Fa Ulores, the Minister of Publlo Worship in France, invited the Bishop • suspend the pilgrimages. Mgr. Gouihs-Houlsrd protested sgstrict the min isterial tlr.-nlar and addressed a letter to the minister himself In term* that were subsequently adjudged lo be offensive. He was summoned lo Paris, and after taro trials was condemned to pay a line. On the day follnarlng the judgment he pub lished a full account of (he affair under •hs tltis “My trial and my advocate*." together with many letters of Indorse ment of his course. PEIRCE ( HIMI IN PEKIN. It sported he Was Kaeorted Rack There try Japanese, Washington, B*pt. 'Th* Japanese le gation has receiver) Ihe following telegram from Iho foreign nfllr* al Tokio: Gen Yamaguchl wires to Ihe following effect: "Col. Btdba, who was sent with a com pany of cavalry lo Talag Ho, Kept. J. os curled Prince Chlng beck lo Pekin. Tbo Prince's residence Icing In the district occupied by Ja|>en*ee, la guarded by them I'revlour lo hts arrival th* Frlnce com municated lo MaJ Gen. Kukuahlma say ing that owing to Ihe present grave situ ation he had been ordered by tbe Em peror to return lo Pekin and lo arroog* affair* Immediately, •'The district In potaessloo of th* Jep unese Is now quiet and In order and tha Chinese entertaining ao fear have re sumed : heir business. "The railway south of Tang Thun M working but it is Impossible to say when communication beyond that point will bo reopened." NATIONAL TEXTILE WORKER!. Committee to support Their Ten- Hoar Its> Maveaieof. Boston i*pt. A—Th* conference com - mlltie of (he National Federal lon of Teg tlle Work' re to-day decided to support th# movement of th* National TegiU# Work ers. for a ten hi ur day In Ihe northern mills It was reported that th* satire membership of ihe hundred local testll* union* In th* South are desirous of re ducing their hours of lob r from 72. and •Ia wask to ten hours a day. The confereuca com miller adopted a constitution for ihe federation. It waa vot'd to hold the next convention of th* organtsatlm In Washington. Dec. 17, In order lo accommodate the large number 1 of delegates from tht Bouthrrn stales. , -am* 1 1 11 i GOV. ROOSEVELT** <|l IET DAT. W ill Go to Lot roaae. Wta., and Then lo the Dnkalaa. Chicago. 111., B*pi. 6—The dor gas spent quietly by Gov. Roosevelt al Ihe •Auditorium Annex la th# morning h# attended Ihe Dutch Reform Church with H. H Kohlsatl and In the afternoon went to dinner wllh Henry C. Payne, vice chairman of the Republic <n National Com mute*. Th* balance of Hie day he eprnt In hie room He leave* In tbe atoroiug for UCtewe. Win., where tbe governor la billed to speak to-morrow oriemoon. Thence he will Imaiedlstely proceed 'To the land of lb# Dakotas " iron t> krays bail. Pekin. Aug M.—Th* Germans have un earthed two rifled Pq-tnch Kruppe: rent pl-tlng the battery of which Ihe Ameri can* found taro guns a week ago Th* American* also found to-day 30) rounds of ammunition for the battery I TWO OKITHI IN MAt ON. Military f'ompaalrs Will Attrad the street Fair. Macon, rta , Bvpt. 3-dfra. Katie M. 8. haupp. wife of E. T. Ik-haupp of tha (touthern Express Company, died here to day. The remain* will be shipped ta Be vannuh for Interment to-morrow morn lag Mr* Husle Hi Ire*, daughter of Ihe lal* Dr Williamson of Macon, died here this morning. Trn of th* twelve military cnmpanlaa composing the Hemil Regiment have asked for accommodation* at the atrvet fair during the reunion of the veterana of Colquitt’s and the Dole-CouK brigade*. Turkish Secretary a suicide. Pari*. Sept. .-Otbut*e Hodja Yuna Goggltuti. nephew of tbs Turkish ambas sador to Great Britain, Coslakl Anlhopulo Pacha, and secretory of tlit- embassy In London, committed suicide yesterday at the railway station al Foiftninehlsau.Mow ing out his brain* wtih a revolver. It ap pear# that he had quarrelsd with hi* par amour and that eh# had refused lo live with him. The Turkish embassy in Paris will arrange to convey the body to Lon • lon. DO ARNE LIFE OF RUSSIAN FKAHANT* Four or Five Families Sometime* Occupy the Same Hat. From the Chicago Chronicle. An Englishman In ths government of Bmolenak. Ituasla. thus writes of thn peasant* of that -rauntry: "The Russian village consist* of from fifteen lo forty log cabins, each twenty flvs to thirty feel square, ami about eevwk feet high to the square. They are heated by a large brick stove about ala fee* square In the reater of the hut, and on th* three aide* of th* stove there ore wood benches about three feet from the floor On these thn Kiinsiaa Bleeps, and under Ihl* 'bed,' or bench, the pig strope and the ben* ruciei Th# only other fur niture 1* a table about three feet square and a plank on Ih* side of life hut to sit upon. In on* corner you will see the store of onions and potato** and over head are sheep and calf skins being dried and prepared ready to make the winter coat. In on* of these huts three, four or flv* families huddle together. The vil lager* work tht land together, plowing, sowing, tilling and reaping nnd mowing In a body and they ikvlda the produce, not equally. Their flocks graae tn one 10l and are attended by herders, usually a couple of hoys and gtrla. They bar* plots of ground for cabbages and potatoes and some villages have a few frull tree#— apples, (wore, plum* und cherries. The crops they raise In this district are hay. rye (tho staple food of the peasants), bar ley, millet and oats. flax, beans snd pea*. Thera t* either a windmill or a horse milt in most villages to grind th* rye. "The whole of the peasant's work Ilea in attending to hit ca'tle and land, cut ting his wood for fuel and carting any sutplus he may have to the nearest town to sell, eo that hs may be able lo buy any of the Iron tool* he requires, such as plow, epxde. ax, saw or stew pot of Iron, ih* only cooking uitntll most of them have. In addition he may buy a little Ira. sugar, tobacco, gin or rome salted herring*, a pie* of gaudy ration print for a Bunday dress for his wife or a print handkerchief for her head These ara about all the things the peasant wish** for that he does not produce himself. "They spin and wravs by hand ihelr own wool and flax and make Ihelr nan clothing out of the cloth. Their feet they covt r with atrip* of the home-nude cloth, and they make sandals from birch bark. He la thought a rich peasant who can afford a pair of Irathrr boot* for Hunday and holiday*. Hl* winter-coat consists of home-cured or tanned skins of sheep or calf, and bla dress In winter consists of a shirt, a coat of skin, s pair of home atom trousers, rag* for hts feet end a skin cap They make their own wooden carls and sledges Pom* of ihim have Iron hoops on their cart wheel# and that ts all the Iron on them; many have not even tha*. The whole of the fuel la wood and the artlflelal light Is furnished by a pine atlrh or spill, lit and stuck In a crevice of the hut, when burnt out to bo replaced by another “They seldom gel meat and their food t* mostly rye hrrad, cabbage rod oi l< n and potato soup, fat bac-n nnd millet porridge and eklmme I milk. The butler they make they sell In tha towns Few of them can read or write, and few can tell i h<- time from a watch or dock. Many villages hßv* no ©look or watch at all. The peotdw arc abiut In tho same aiag* of civilisation lhal the English at tained In the seventeenth eskiury, al though. of count-, they are rapidly be ing iransfoimed by mean* of the rail way Another thirty \*am wII lompleie ly change ih# tenor of Ihelr live*, and the •'hang# will Ineraase ttplr wains, ami tn this way And markets to absorb the goods which Ihelr own mills ami workshops produce Of course, thrrs la no onenlng for foreign textile goods,, b cause the pro tective larllf are too heavy. If these tar iffs wire abolished the Rusal in mills would get their machinery for SS per cent, leas money, and Ih s I* no little Item when the Interest on money ranges from • lo 13 per cent " SBW tWNK It U K HIOT*. How hegeoes Were l.rprliri on the llmli la IMKI. Prom the New York Prm Do you recollect the riot* la ltd, when we eaw the mot> bene e negro In Thirty* ee.ond street, between Sixth ami Heyemh avenues? Those were fearful days far Sambo William Jones, for doing I don't know what, waa hanged to a lump-post In Clarkson street ami a Are was built un der him. In all twelve nesRM were hanged Three policemen end about l.fM rioters were killed or died of their Inju ries. Over H.tKM.OOO worth of property was destroyed. Twenty rioters were Indicted Kiel nineteen were convicted, ataelr sen tences aggregating MW years of Imprison ment Probably 1.0-0 persons were more or less injured. Over Ally bulldlnss were burned. Including the Colored Orphan Asylum, and a ares' number of stores snd dwelltncs were sacked. Hundreds of ne groes disappeared from the city. Just es they ere disappearing now from the Ten derloin. If the mob should make aftnr Devery as It did after bis prdec*eor In olltce. John A Kennedy, heaven help him He la too b'g nnd fat tv run. Kennedy was an ath lete. The first thing the mob did to hint was to knock him down a eta-font em bankment into n vacant Sol He got up ami ran wtih Ike Infuriate rabble at his heels, and waa knocked down e second time, over another embankment. Then a Mg rioter hit him In the head with a club, while others beat him about the body He broke away and ran to a mod hole In Lealngton avenue. "Heown him. drown him.'’ ylied the pursuers. A blow sent him heed Aral Into the pool, stones at the bottom lacerating Ms face. He scrambled an. wading, half swimming and crawling, until he got across before the mob got sround, and meeting Mr. John R igan, a leading cltigeo. begged for aid Kagan pleaded with the mob. pr.l Ken nedy Into a . taunt' n f<d wagon and sent him to police headquarters So completely was the superintended "done up" that rommlslevner Acton did not recognise him He was shockingly disfigured for a long time, yte, rtolwithstanding his ** yean, ha waa ©o duty •gain in three day*. 5